In our Flyer Families this week, students discussed what it means to be proactive. Habit #1 is all about taking charge of oneself and being the boss of one's behaviors, actions, and attitude.

• There is no Weekly Reflection coming home today. We were on a roll with a few other things today, and time just got away from us!
• Midterm Reports will come home on Monday of next week. Students completed the Character & Work Ethic section as a form of self-reflection. Please sign and return on Tuesday.
• Some evenings, you will see your child has written "Read 20+ minutes ________________" in his/her planner. The blank is for students to record the title of the book (s)he read. This assignment is homework and not an option for students to complete.

Monday, September 21

Tuesday, September 22

Wednesday, September 23

Thursday, September 24

Happy birthday, Haylee! 

Moms & Muffins @ 8:00 am 

Our first Spelling test

Staff vs. 5th Grade kickball game @ 2:00 pm, parents welcome!

Friday, September 25
No School, Teacher Professional Development Day

Math

We learned about three properties of addition.  The Identity Property states that any number plus zero is that same number.  The Commutative Property states that changing the order of addends does not change the sum.  The Associative Property States that grouping addends differently does not change the same.  Can you label each example with a property?

• 49 + 12 = 12 + 49
• 335 + 0 = 335
• (7 + 8) + 2 = 7 + (8 + 2) 

Students also participated in Workstations.  Workstations allow kids to review previous skills and spend time working on ALEKS.

Writer's Workshop
We learned about theme, an author's important message or life lesson that (s)he teaches through Realistic Fiction writing.  We also studied three types of leads and began drafting our stories!

Monissa glued leads from some of our favorite books into her Writer's Notebook.

Reader's Workshop

We learned about reading intensely and started Kate Dicamillo's Tiger Rising.  This book helped us to harvest, or collect, a few new words that we'd like to incorporate into our writing and speaking:  lurch and defiant.